Prophages of Bacillus cereus sensu lato

Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses and the most abundant biological entities on Earth. Temperate bacteriophages can form prophages stably maintained in the host population: they either integrate into the host genome or replicate as plasmids in the host cytoplasm. The aim of this project is to isolate, sequence and study the prophages of the Bacillus cereus group.